3D print the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
A free, printable model of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and the grounds, paths and roads around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science, in Denver, Colorado, is a city museum of natural history and science. It serves the Rocky Mountain region as a resource for informal science education. The building, at 716,000 square feet (66,519 m2), holds over one million objects: natural history and anthropological material, plus archive and library resources.
Its roots lie in the work of Edwin Carter, who moved to a cabin in Breckenridge, Colorado, in 1868 to study Rocky Mountain birds and mammals. In 1892 prominent Denver citizens became interested in bringing his collection to the capital, and he offered to sell it for $10,000. With a butterfly and moth collection and a crystallized gold collection, it formed the nucleus of the Colorado Museum of Natural History, incorporated on December 6, 1900, which welcomed the public on July 1, 1908.
A team led by the museum, in 1927, found two stone projectile points lodged in an extinct bison species at Folsom, New Mexico. The Folsom points showed that people lived in North America over 10,000 years ago. In 1948 the institution became the Denver Museum of Natural History, and it took the name Denver Museum of Nature and Science in 2000. It is an independent nonprofit and a Smithsonian Institution affiliate.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 7 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 8 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 10 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Many flat roofs
- The museum is a wide cluster of low blocks with flat roofs and small rooftop details. Print friendly adapts those details to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on a larger print.
- Gentle terrain
- The grounds around the museum are gently sloped. A layer height of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keeps the ground and building edges clean.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Denver Museum of Nature & Science STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science grows with the print: about 7 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
